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Post by dots69 on Mar 21, 2006 21:13:45 GMT
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Post by rosko on Mar 21, 2006 22:20:15 GMT
 I was 22 when this album was released, and thought I was on top of the rock music world back then. But I've never heard of the Redskins. Please fill me in. Thanks
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Post by edward on Mar 21, 2006 22:39:48 GMT
I was a very big fan of theirs but I was disappointed with the album. I enjoyed (and still do) the singles far more
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Post by dots69 on Mar 21, 2006 23:26:35 GMT
I was 22 when this album was released, and thought I was on top of the rock music world back then. But I've never heard of the Redskins. Please fill me in. Thanks your location may have something to do with that  check the link above i hear ye Edward - 'Lev Bronstien' 'Peasant Army' - sure im a 45 man meself ! however March 16th was the LP anniversary and worth a mention still imho. respect Dots |
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Post by matt on Mar 22, 2006 9:33:53 GMT
Kick Over the Statues....had the NME writers in ecstacy...I was also taken....
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Post by nickbug on Mar 22, 2006 9:44:24 GMT
Yeah great stuff.
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Post by Baldhead Selector on Mar 22, 2006 12:00:53 GMT
I saw The Redskins play Brunel University. I was unimpressed myself although there were plenty of other people there that were clearly infatuated with the band.
Respect
Baldy
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Post by lankou2 on Mar 23, 2006 17:00:27 GMT
i have some great soundboard tapes that tend to prove they could be very tight and powerful.
their gig at the famous Transmusicales festival in Rennes (France) is a classic pirate which has been passed from hand to hand for ages...
i also have the singles and 12 " and tend to prefer them to the album.
as for the NME 's writeups : wasn't one of the members friend with some writer or himself a writer for the weekly???
such mentiones also used to be made about Maroon Town in the second half of the 80's :
btw, how do you call such friendly promo articles in English ?just curious.
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Post by gryffe on Mar 23, 2006 19:23:58 GMT
more like 20th anniversary of one of the greatest LPs ever released by a Yorkshire band in 1986! poor mans clash
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Post by edward on Mar 23, 2006 20:50:25 GMT
Steven Wells, writing in the sleevenotes to the Redskins Live CD released by Dojo in 1994: "In a rather chic little wine bar chocka-block with the luminaries of the poetry scene, myself and punk poet Atilla The Stockbroker are pissed out of our heads on free red wine. I find myself drunkenly babbling to this 'geezer' who looks like Pete Townsend (have a look in the back of a spoon, you'll see what I mean). He's going on about the Redskins, this great band, how nobody seems to know who they are. I motion him forward and in a conspiratorial and utterly pissed whisper inform him that Chris Dean, the band's singer, has been working at the NME for some time now under the pseudonym 'X Moore' and has been inserting mentions of the band into the paper at every opportunity, feeding the buzz. And the best thing is, I laugh, that Neil Spencer, the editor, hasn't got a clue! "He has now" replies the Townsend lookalike. AAAAAAARGH! Their cover blown, the Redskins emerge into the harsh light of day."  |
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Post by lankou2 on Mar 24, 2006 12:20:18 GMT
thanks Edward. X Moore, i'd forgotten about the pseudo!
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